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Conservative Conference Adds Games, Hopes to be ?Off the Hook?

By pete_gallagher

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) kicks off tomorrow in Washington D.C. and organizers of the event are turning to videogames and hip-hop in an attempt to ramp up the event's attraction to a younger audience.

Fox News reports that videogames will be featured in a room called the XPAC Lounge, or as one event organizer termed it, the 'hub of fun.' The lounge was the brain-child of radio host Kevin McCullough and actor Stephen Baldwin.

Ten videogame stations will be featured in all, offering attendees the chance to play games such as Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution and Call of Duty.

The XPAC Lounge will also be home to a late night 'rap/jam' session on Thursday night. The article questions the viability of such a function in light of Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele's (pictured) failed past attempts at interjecting hip-hop culture into conservative principals. Steele previously published a blog entitled 'What Up?' that he eventually killed in reaction to ridicule of the name and he also reportedly once described a GOP public relations initiative as 'off the hook.'

CPAC Director Lisa De Pasquale seemed to think that 'the energy' is flowing more towards conservative candidates right now, adding, 'To be a rebel on campus, you have to be a conservative."

5,000 people are pre-registered for the conference, 61.0 percent of whom are students.

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on February 17, 2010 (boomark / email).